About Chad

Trauma-informed experience for trauma-informed care.

Chad Stiles is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, licensed to provide care for clients located in Colorado, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, and Virginia.

Portrait of Chad Stiles, PhD, LMFT.

Clinical Grounding

A calm, direct presence for couples affected by trauma.

Chad has a Master's degree and PhD in Marriage and Family Therapy. Before becoming a clinician, he served in the military for 20 years and then worked for the government for an additional 5 years.

His therapeutic focus is couples where one or both partners have been impacted by trauma and that trauma keeps surfacing in the relationship. He uses a solution-focused orientation, an Internal Family Systems-informed approach, and elements of Ocean Therapy.

Chad is certified as an Ocean Therapy Practitioner. He has also been married for more than 20 years and has two adult children.

The goal is not to decide which partner is the problem. The goal is to slow down the pattern.

Safety Boundary

Chad does not work with couples where violence is still actively occurring or has recently occurred. Couples are screened for this during initial and follow-up meetings. He also does not work with sexual offenders, who are referred to a certified sexual offender treatment professional in their locality.

Licenses Held

Licensed across four states

  • ColoradoLicense # MFT.0003103
  • PennsylvaniaLicense # MF001890
  • South CarolinaLicense # 8383
  • VirginiaLicense # 0717002631

Primary Focus

Trauma-impacted couples

Care for partners navigating distance, defensiveness, mistrust, shutdown, intimacy struggles, and emotional safety concerns.

Approach

Practical and paced

Solution-focused work, parts-informed curiosity, and ocean-based grounding are used to build safer conversations.

Begin With Fit

You do not have to figure this out alone.

Schedule a free 15-minute consultation to ask about fit, format, and availability. It is a low-pressure first step toward understanding whether focused couples work is right for you.

Reach Out

(304) 576-5792

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